1. Synthesis and study of Benzofuran-Pyran analogs as BMP-2 targeted osteogenic agents. Pragati Kushwaha, Ashish Kumar Tripathi, Sampa Gupta, Priyanka Kothari, Akanksha Upadhyay, Naseer Ahmad, Tanuj Sharma, M.I.Siddiqi, Ritu Trivedi, Koneni V. Sashidhara. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, ISSN: 0223-5234, (2018), 156, 103-117., DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.06.062, (Impact factor : 5.572).
2. Synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular dynamic simulations of novel Benzofuran-tetrazole derivatives as potential agents against Alzheimer’s disease. Pragati Kushwaha, Soobiya Fatima, Akanksha Upadhyay, Sampa Gupta, Sudha Bhagwati, Tanvi Baghel, M.I.Siddiqi, Aamir Nazir, Koneni V. Sashidhara. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, ISSN: 0960-894X,(2019), 29, 66-72. DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2018.11.005, (Impact factor: 2.442).
3. Synthesis and evaluation of novel triazolyl quinoline derivatives as potential antileishmanial agents. Akanksha Upadhyay, Pragati Kushwaha, Sampa Gupta, Ranga Prasad Dodda, Karthik Ramalingam, Ruchir Kant, Neena Goyal, Koneni V. Sashidhara. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, ISSN: 0223-5234, (2018), 154, 172-181. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.05.014, (Impact factor: 5.572).
4. Novel Chalcone−Thiazole Hybrids as Potent Inhibitors of Drug Resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Koneni V. Sashidhara, K. Bhaskara Rao, Pragati Kushwaha, Ram K. Modukuri, Pratiksha Singh, Isha Soni, P. K. Shukla, Sidharth Chopra, Mukesh Pasupuleti. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, ISSN: 1948-5875, (2015), 6, 809−813. DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5b00169, (Impact factor: 3.794).
5. Development of Leishmania donovani stably expressing DsRed for flow cytometry-based drug screening using chalcone thiazolyl-hydrazone as a new antileishmanial target. Anil Kumar Jaiswal, K. Bhaskara Rao, Pragati Kushwaha, Keerti Rawat, Ram K. Modukuri, Prashant Khare, Sumit Joshi, Shikha Misra, Ambak Rai, Koneni V. Sashidhara, Anuradha Dube. Int J Antimicrob Agents, ISSN: 0924-8579, (2016), 48, 695-702. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2016.09.018, (Impact factor: 4.253).
6. Synthesis and bio-evaluation of indole-chalcone based benzopyrans as promising antiligase and antiproliferative agents. Sampa Gupta, Pooja Maurya, Akanksha Upadhyay, Pragati Kushwaha, Shagun Krishna, Mohammad Imran Siddiqi, Koneni V. Sashidhara, Dibyendu Banerjee. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, ISSN: 0223-5234, (2018), 143, 1981-1996. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.11.015, (Impact factor: 5.572).
7. The diacylglycerol acyltransferase Rv3371 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is required for growth arrest and involved in stress induced cell wall alterations. Shivangi Rastogi, Amit Kumar Singh, Gyan Chandra, Pragati Kushwaha, Garima Pant, Kavita Singh, Kalyan Mitra, Koneni V. Sashidhara, Manju Y. Krishnan. Tuberculosis ISSN: 1472-9792, (2017), 104, 8-19. DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2017.02.001, (Impact factor: 2.727).
8. Synthesis, biological evaluation, structure−activity relationship, and mechanism of action studies of Quinoline−Metronidazole derivatives against experimental visceral leishmaniasis. Akanksha Upadhyay, Pragya Chandrakar, Sampa Gupta, Naveen Parmar, Sandeep Kumar Singh, Mamunur Rashid, Pragati Kushwaha, Muhammad Wahajuddin, Koneni V. Sashidhara, Susanta Kar. Journal of medicinal chemistry. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00628, (Impact Factor: 6.205).
9. Hybrids of coumarin–indole: design, synthesis and biological evaluation in Triton WR-1339 and highfat diet induced hyperlipidemic rat models. Koneni V. Sashidhara, Bhaskara Rao, Ravi Sonkar, Ram K. Modukuri, Yashpal Chhonker, Pragati Kushwaha, Hardik Chandasana, A. K. Khanna, Rabi S. Bhatta, Gitika Bhatia, Manish Suthar, Jitendra Saxena, Vikash Kumar, Imran Siddiqi. MedChemComm. ISSN: 2040-2511, (2016), 7, 1858-1869. DOI: 10.1039/C6MD00283H, (Impact factor: 2.342).
10. In-house chemical library repurposing: A case example for Pseudomonas aeruginosa antibiofilm activity and quorum sensing inhibition. L Ravithej Singh, Vikash C. Tripathi, Sneha Raj, Anoop Kumar, Sampa Gupta, Soyar Horam, Akanksha Upadhyay, Pragati Kushwaha, Jesu Arockiaraj, Koneni V. Sashidhara, Mukesh Pasupuleti. Drug Dev Res. ISSN: 1098-2299, (2018), 1–8. DOI: 10.1002/ddr.21458, (Impact factor: 2.646).
11. Synthesis of Benzofuran-dihydropyrimidinone hybrids and their biological evaluation against amyloid beta associated effects in transgenic C. elegans model. Pragati Kushwaha, Shamsuzzama, Akanksha Upadhyay, Lalit Kumar, Sampa Gupta, Aamir Nazir, Koneni V. Sashidhara. ( Manuscript under preperation).
12.Benzofuran pyran compound rescues rat and human osteoblast from lipotoxic effect of palmitate by inhibiting lipid biosynthesis and promoting stabilization of RUNX2. Ashish Kumar Tripathi, Divya Rai, Priyanka Kothari, Pragati Kushwaha, Shradha Sinha, Anirban Sardar, Koneni V. Sashidhara, Ritu Trivedi. Toxicology in vitro. DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2020.104872, (Impact Factor : 2.903)